Re: [PATCH v3 00/76] Optimize list lru memory consumption

From: Theodore Ts'o
Date: Tue Sep 14 2021 - 16:23:57 EST


On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 03:28:22PM +0800, Muchun Song wrote:
> So we have to convert to new API for all filesystems, which is done in
> one patch. Some filesystems are easy to convert (just replace
> kmem_cache_alloc() to alloc_inode_sb()), while other filesystems need to
> do more work.

>From what I can tell, three are 54 file systems for which it was a
trivial one-line change, and two (f2fs and nfs42) that were a tad bit
more complex.

> In order to make it easy for maintainers of different
> filesystems to review their own maintained part, I split the patch into
> patches which are per-filesystem in this version. I am not sure if this
> is a good idea, because there is going to be more commits.

What I'd actually suggest is that you combine all of the trivial file
system changes into a single commit, and keep the two more complex
changes for f2fs and nfs42 in separate commits.

Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>

... for the ext4 related change.

- Ted